The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-02-18

Whia. and servsd from iS47 TO lb49
He was defeated for the Thirty First
Congress BY Nathaniel Aibertson. Of
Greenville, \ Democrat, who retired @
the end Of one term. to be succeeded by
Jas. Lockhart, Of Evansville, Who Was
elected TO the Thirty Second Congress
ss Democrat, defeating L. q. DebruIer
by s26 majority.
Nj. Lockhart was succeeded by Smith
Miller, of Patoka, who was elected 70
the Thirty Third and Thirty-Fonrth
Congresses as Democrat, serving from
Dece mher 9th, 1851. 10 March Sd, 1906:
In the Thirty-Fifth Congress we hnd
|son Of Dubois county ~ the helm, IN the
lperson Of Hon. WIN. +. Niblack. he
was elected "a = Democrat TO the Thirty
IFinh and Thirty Sixth Congresses.
Mr.. John Law, OF Evansville, succsed-
led Mr.. Niblack in the TLirty-beventn
lCongrsss. He was elected ~ . Demo-
lcrat aud served two terms, 1861, to 1850
when he declined the nomination. ne
had previously been Receiver Of the VIM
cennes Land Office. under President
Van Buren,, from 1888 10 lS42: ne
grandfather was = member OF the Conti'
mental Congress and his father of the 18th
1 Congress. in 1914. thus presenting the
remarkable spectacle Of three genera
tions Of one family representing con-
stituencies IN Congress during the three
grestest wars the Uuiied States has en-
gagged In that for Independence, the
war Of 1912, aud the rebellion.
| On Mr.. Laws retirement Mr.. NibIack
Iagsin represented his District for i0u!
years. or during the Thirty-Ninth and
Fortieth Congresses, It which time Du.
bois wss gerrymandered into the Second
District with Floyd county, and the rep
'lresentative star OF Dubois county grew
brighter under the leadership Of ~. =
Kerr, for the Forty-tirst and Forty
Second Congresses, lS69-73.
i For the Forty Third Congress Mr.
Simeon Il. Wolfe, OF Corydon, was ou'
and ct e..closc Of hiI
llterm DUBOIS once more changed dis
rItricts, and as result the people elected
} Hon. James d. Williams, who was after
B wards known as "BIue .Jeans,' to tn
: Forty Fourth Congress. lie served on
. session with great eclat. and nearl.
: eclipsed Mr.. Holman ~ an economist
: He did his work SO well that at the cn'
of one session he wss elected Governo
rIbt AuuiSuos Alir ~OUkt SseiOuet sAtS Ae~ss
ed six days OF being one year.
! ''Blne Jeans was succeeded 10 Congres
NJ by Hon. Andrew Humphrics, of Bloom
E field, tor The short session of the Forty
!. Fourth Congress.
Hon. Thomas II. Cobb, Of Vincenne
h sat from The Forty. .Finh 20 the Fnrtl
,f Ninth Congress inclusive. being equ
J. with Katiifr Boon, both having servs
10 the dear people" for ten consccuti'
eyears. Mr.. Cobbs work has attracte
0 national attention.
. Altogether during the eighty.tw
'-lyears Dubois has had . representative
4 Congress, there are but thee names th'
0 are remembered score Of years afis
1.-The end Of their official careers. Thos
'-are Robert Dale Owen, M. g. Kerr an
!, Jas. d. Williams. each long since gor
to the land Of their fathers. Yetthe ST.
o ries Of their careers il one bright sp'
Win the arid desert Of the repi esentativ
n men OF Southern Indiana.
!. BY this time next year time will hav
u added another name TO their long list
. the person Of Hon. John H. O'Neall,
N Daviess county. who he's already bee
:. elected 70 the Fiftieth Congress. Let !
10 hope that his course may be upward an
,f onward until the fame OF his name sha
e be synonym Of al that 10 brightest On
n best, paleing the dim lights Of the pa
Isge like star Of matchless worth.
ls KARA KAPU.
81 Feb. Is. 1887.